Improvement in spoon-blanks



PATENT OFFICE.

' `LE ROY S. WHITE, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPOON-BLANKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 72,706, dated December 24, 1867.

T0 all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, LE ROY S. WHITE, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inthe Manufacture of Spoons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a diagram or face view of a bar or plate in part,.illustrating the form and disposition of spoonblanks cut according to my improvement; Fig. 2, a view of one of my improved blanks detached; and Figs. 3 and 4, similar views of the ordinary form and mode of manufacturing or cutting spoonblanks.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the manufacture of spoons from German silver, or other like metal or alloy, it is quite an object, in cutting or stamping out the blanks from a bar or plate, to economize the scrap or waste by working' the bar or plate into as many blanks as possible, heavy waste in the bar materially enhancing the cost of the blanks as they are furnished from the mill to the spoon-manufacturer.- The after processes of rolling and stamping out the blank into a more nished shape, though .usually entailing further waste, the previous remarks, as regards the formation of scrap, are not designed to apply to.

The nature of my invention consists in so forming the blanks and arranging their cut out of the bar that, while giving the same a shanks a and bowls b, and arranging them.

transversely of the bar A, the formation of all scrap or waste in producing a series of spoon-blanks is or may be avoided.

. rIhe process of making the spoonsfrom these blanks is substantially the same as that of making them from blanks of the form heretofore commonly employed.

What I here claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The spoon-blanks of such form, and vso cut or stamped out of the bar or plate without intervening scrap, substantially as specified.

LE ROY S. WHITE.

Witnesses:

NELSON J. WELToN, PETER W. POWELL. 

